Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System SAKSS

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Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System
(SAKSS)

• Godfrey Bahiigwa
• SAKSS Coordinator
• Eastern and Central Africa
• g.bahiigwa_at_cgiar.org
• Presented at USSP October 31, 2005

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What is SAKSS?

• SAKSS is a platform for sharing data and
  analytical tools
• SAKSS is a source of information for planning,
  implementation and ME
• SAKSS is a network of institutions and
  individuals
• SAKSS is an environment that allows for
  interaction among various stakeholders

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SAKSS Goal

• Empower policy makers, researchers, development
  practitioners and beneficiary communities with
  information and knowledge to support design,
  implementation and ME of agriculture and rural
  development strategies

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What Can SAKSS Do?

• Improve access to information and knowledge from
  a variety of sources
• Avail to users the latest interactive ICT tools
  (such as eGIS) to increase data utility
• Improve investment targeting
• Assist in priority setting using cutting-edge
  analytical tools (e.g. development domains)
• Allow interaction among various stakeholders to
  improve debate and quality of research questions

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Linking USSP and ECA SAKSS and CAADP/RESKSS

• Uganda needs a country level SAKSS to support the
  PMA implementation and ME
• The USSP provides a platform for the formation of
  the country SAKSS
• IFPRI is a generator of knowledge and analytical
  tools to feed into the USSP
• SAKSS needs to be institutionalised for
  sustainability PMA Sec. appropriate

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ECA SAKSS Poverty Targeting Tool

• ECA SAKSS has developed a tool that allows users
  to
• overlay their own data on poverty maps
• improve investment targeting
• monitor investments
• improve communication on poverty interventions
• Here I will demonstrate how a user can add their
  own data to the poverty maps

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Example Using Poverty Maps for Targeting
Investments

• The Plan for Modernisation (PMA) of Uganda
• PMA Secretariat wants to show investment projects
  on poverty maps
• National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS)
  wants to show technologies adopted/disseminated
  in different places on the poverty maps
• PMA Sec. and NAADS want poverty maps at
  sub-county level for better poverty targeting

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What can ECA SAKSS do for USSP?

• Analytical research beyond the national agenda,
  e.g. regional trade (policy, constraints, etc)
• Access to interactive analytical tools developed
  by ECA SAKSS (e.g. poverty targeting tool,
  development domains, etc)
• Capacity strengthening in specific areas
  (research tools, spatial analysis, etc)
• Collaboration in dissemination and communication
  (e.g. CDs, web environment)